Because of the Vietnam War,
I had to decline an NSF postdoctoral fellowship to do marine organic
chemistry at Flordia State University an stay at MIT. I accepted a
Postdoctral Position at MIT in
Analytical Chemistry for 1 year working with Prof. David
Hercules studying "Type II Reactions using Flash Photolysis."

1996: Recipient of the Nationally Acclaimed "Anderson Award for Quality" for programs
involving Coalitions with Business, Universities, and Government -
Presented to the six "Access 2000" Coalition PI's.

As IIT
Director of "Access 2000", (
(NSF-CRCM), A six membered Chicago area coalition seeking to increase the
number of underrepresented students choosing technical fields of study,
$3,800,000 over 5 years, I have designed and run four precollege and/or teacher science, math, and
computer programs:

Community HAWK: A computer centered program for Chicago
middle school students.

As IIT Director of "Chicago AMP" ChAMP, (NSF-AMP), A six university
coalition seeking to increase the number of underrepresented students
receiving BS or BA degrees in technical fields, $7,000,000 over 15 years to
coalition, I have run three college level programs for science, engineering, and math
(SEM) students:

As
IIT Director of "Chicago AMP" ChAMP, funded by IBHE
and NFS, I have sent many UG students to National Conferences.

As IIT Director of "Illinois LS-AMP",
I am happy to say that the original ChAMP group has been expanded to include
downstate partners and continues its successes in SMET programs initiated by
ChAMP. NSF funding of $2,500,000 continues thru 2015.

As Director of IIT's 1st , 2nd, 3rd, 4th,
5th, and 6th Undergraduate Research (UGR) Conference, I funded a forum for
IIT's students to present their UGR research results to their peers. The
University now uses he format to include its IPRO students. I also have send
IIT-AMP Scholars all over the US to present their research results.

As a pyrotechno expert, I am well known for the
explosions I perform in class and the "Show and Blow" demonstrations I put on
for visiting students and community groups and their parents.

The CHEM 124 class ends with
student poster presentions. The presentations stress chemistry and the
environment. Professors teaching CHEM124 recently have continued this
tradition. Lets keep our air clean so we can continue to admire our planet
from space as in this fantastic "JPG" picture of the earth taken from space
using an infrared lense.

As an organic chemist, I also teach courses in my specialty, organic
chemistry, including sophomore CHEM237 and
CHEM239. My
CHEM237 fall 2000 Web
page has the syllabus and class schedule for this class as well as
homework assignments. I also teach the advanced mechanism and syntheses
courses, CHEM455, CHEM530 and CHEM 531 which are often on IIT/V. In 2001,
CHEM530 pioneered a web-based streaming video format.

"UR Therefore UB"

As an outdoor person and
Advisor to the IIT Outdoor
Club, I have created Pages of local (1 hr.) and distant
(3hr.) places, including maps and photos. If you use these materials to plan a
trip, let me know how it went. Illinois Dept. of Natural
Resources has a list of parks close to Chicago. Outdoor events and trips
are planned by the UB Outdoor programmers.

The IIT Armour Ski Club just
got back from Devil's
Head and Cascade
Mountain ski areas, both north of Madison, Wisconsin. Previous Spring
Break trips were to Vail and
Beaver Creek in Colorado. What a great 15 hr. train trip to Denver. We partied
all nite!. This year we went to Boyne Highland and Nobs Nob in Michigan for a
long weekend.

IIT went 20 years without a yearbook but in the last
several years that has changed. As Faculty Advisor to "The Integral" I have
provided many of photos related to student activities for the first (recent
memory) issue on the Class of 99. This year's editor is gathering materials to
meet the early spring publishing deadlines for 2001.

For the last six years, I have spent long, sunny
weeks as an IIT A-Team Faculty member recruiting in Puerto Rico. It is a
beautiful island. If you are not familiar with the area, checkout my
"Nationally aclaimed" Puerto Rico Journey web
page which I have posted for the benefit of IIT's Puerto Rican students. I
have returned to the Island every year since 1986. This year I spent most of
my time SCUBA diving the walls off 6 miles south of La Parguara on the Islands
SE coast..